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Giving Tuesday and 2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power. Giving Tuesday lets you help

Tidbits-Nov.27 -Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson – Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to Getting Rid of Citizens United;

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Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson - Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to Getting Rid of Citizens United; The Montana Plan;

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power in a myriad of ways.

Other Victories for Working Families

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Zohran Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America, showing well-organized progressives can beat the power of big money.

Tidbits-Nov.20 -Reader Comments: Trump Meets Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salam; Not Just About the Hostages, Gazans Continue To Be Killed; Forums–Policing and Public Safety-A Socialist Mayor; Fighting MAGA & Fighting Racism – Looking Towards 2026

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Reader Comments: Trump meets Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salam; It Was Not Just About the Hostages - Gazans Continue to be Killed; Policing and Public Safety-A Socialist Mayor - A Panel Discussion; Fighting MAGA & Fighting Racism - Looking Towards 2026

Tidbits-Nov.6 -Reader Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; U.S. Left History; Trump Blows Up White House, Blows Up Food Budgets, Now Wants To Blow Up World; the Fight Ahead-From Ceasefire to a Just Peace – Meet Standing Together’s Leaders in New York City

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Reader Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; U.S. Left History; Trump Blows Up White House, Blows Up Food Budgets, Now Wants to Blow Up World; The Fight Ahead - From Ceasefire to A Just Peace - Meet Standing Together's leaders in New York City; more....

Uncertainty Persists for SNAP Recipients, Federal Workers As Shutdown Drags On

Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Camila DeChalus, Veronica Stracqualursi, Auzinea Bacon CNN
Food banks grapple with a surge in demand. The prolonged lapse in government funding continues to stress food banks, charities and nonprofits set up to assist Americans in need, with federal workers going without pay also turning to those sources.

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

Dana Goldstein The New York Times
History lessons are being wiped from the internet, California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. School curriculum had been restricted before, notably during the Red Scares

Donald Trump’s Plan To Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way

David A. Graham The Atlantic
Our election system is reaching a breaking point. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber
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